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Maggie Humphreys

Washington State Mom Force Director

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Maggie is the Washington State Organizer for MomsRising, working with Washington's 40,000 MomsRising members to advance policies at the local and state level that boost families and the economy. Maggie also serves as the President of the National Women's Political Caucus of Washington, the state's oldest organization dedicated to recruiting, training, and electing women to public office. She has focused her career on building up systems of change in governance, public policy, and leadership. Maggie previously worked at the Economic Opportunity Institute, a progressive policy action tank in Seattle, and at PRR, a national public involvement and facilitation firm.

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Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited Tacoma, WA to meet with MomsRising member Betsy Kindblade, Tacoma Public Schools, Tacoma Public Utilities, the Washington Health Department, and other Tacoma parents to talk about the local and national crisis of lead in school and home drinking water. IMG_1500.JPG Tacoma parents are still grappling with the news that high levels of lead were found in several schools. In fact, at one elementary school, levels were as high as 2,330 parts per billion — that is more than 150 times the federal EPA's threshold for action, which is 15 ppb! Betsy, whose own...